DODI 5040.02, VISUAL INFORMATION (VI)
FOIA REQUESTS
WITHIN 20 WORKING DAYS
FOIA APPEALS
WITHIN 60 DAYS
DMA Director
Provide a primary and alternate COMCAM representative to the National Military Command Center (NMCC), the Executive Support Center, and the Global Situational Awareness Facility when necessary to facilitate COMCAM integration into operations
DMA Director
Provide assistance to the CJCS for planning and coordinating COMCAM and VI documentation (VIDOC) deployment, and identifying VI and COMCAM objectives
DMA Director
Provide technical training for VI and COMCAM personnel
9 FOIA EXEMPTIONS
*Classified national defense and foreign relations information. *Internal agency rules and practices. Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law. *Trade secrets and other confidential business information. *Inter-agency or intra-agency communications that are protected by legal privileges. *Information involving matters of personal privacy (protected under the Privacy Act or containing sensitive personally identifiable information). *Information compiled for law enforcement purposes, to the extent that the production of those records: *Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. *Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication. *Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. *Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source. *Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement, investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions. *Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual. *Information relating to the supervision of financial institutions. *Geological information on wells.
Budget Submitting Office VI Management Office (BSOVIMO)
A staff office at the budget management level, which prescribes and requires compliance with VI policies and procedures and reviews operations.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS
ASD(PA)
COMCAM
COMCAM forces shall provide the OSD, the CJCS, the Military Departments, the Combatant Commands, and JTFs with a directed imagery capability in support of strategic, operational, and planning requirements during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, joint exercises, and humanitarian operations. The COMCAM mission can support, but is independent from, unique imagery operations and systems designed to meet specific VI mission requirements, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), operational test and evaluation, and certain DoD functions
DVISC Commitee
Discusses, explores, develops, proposes, advises, assists, and provides recommendations to the ASD(PA) on matters pertaining to DoD VI planning, policy, procedures, direction, management, standards, and other related issues. DMA Director chairs.
DIMOC
DIMOC - Defense Imagery Management Operations Center
DIRECTOR, DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY
DMA
DVIAN
Defense Visual Infor.mation Activity Number (DVIAN). A unique identifier assigned to each authorized DoD VI activity.
DMA Director
Develop and oversee the implementation and effectiveness of VI policies and procedures for the DoD VI program, including the Joint COMCAM Program, life-cycle management of DoD VI productions, products, records, VI activity management and concepts of operation for employing VI capabilities
DMA Director
Distribute information to assist those who plan for and those who use VI and COMCAM imagery, including official Government customers, non-Federal agencies, commercial organizations, retired military personnel, and the general public
DMA Director
Establish and coordinate communication requirements with the Combatant Commands to transmit VI and COMCAM imagery to the DIMOC
DMA Director
Establish, operate, and maintain DoD information systems to support the DoD VI mission across all DoD Components.
DMA Director
Establish, operate, and maintain the DIMOC for DoD level coordination, collection, management, storage, and distribution of strategic, operational, tactical, and joint-interest VI with the operational functions to
Vision ID
FC670
NMCC
National Military Command Center
VIRIN
Official DoD imagery, other than DoD productions assigned a Production Identification Number in accordance with Reference (f), shall be assigned a VIRIN to enable the management of the imagery as a shared strategic asset, facilitate retrieval, repurposing, and provide an enterprise record identification system
DMA Director
Operate DoD imagery systems providing uplink, transmission, reception, distribution, and usage tracking in support of the DoD, other Government agencies (OGA), and allied and coalition partners
DMA Director
Operate the central DoD distribution point for VI end products
SECRETARIES OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS
Organize, train, and equip COMCAM personnel and units to provide highly responsive imagery acquisition, processing, and transmission capabilities in support of operational and planning requirements during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, and joint exercises. COMCAM resources shall be sufficient to support the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan force structure
COMBATANT COMMANDERS
Plan for, task, deploy, and employ COMCAM forces and VIDOC teams during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, joint exercises, and other events involving the DoD Components having significant national interest.
DMA Director
The Director, DMA, under the authority, direction, and control of the ASD(PA)
DIMOC
The DoD's central VI records center. It receives, stores, preserves, provides reference service on, and disposes of VI records. It is responsible for receiving, documenting, replicating, controlling quality, controlling inventory and life cycle managing defense inventory productions and other VI end products
FOIA INFO
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that generally provides that any person has a right, enforceable in court, to obtain access to federal agency records. All federal agencies, including EPA, are required to make requested records available unless the records are protected from disclosure by one of nine FOIA exemptions contained in the statute. (APPLIES ONLY TO FEDERAL AGENCIES)
VIRIN
The VIRIN shall consist of 15 data elements, in four fields, separated by three hyphens, for a total of 18 characters, organized in the alpha (A) numeric (N) format NNNNNN-A-AANNN- NNN.
VIRIN 1st part
The year (Y), month (M), and day (D) of acquisition or origin, arranged as YYMMDD. Example: March 23, 2009 = 090323
VIRIN
VI RECORD IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (VIRIN)
OFFICIAL COMMAND SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Have the commanding officer or public affairs officer approval • Have a valid .mil email address • Link to an official DON website URL • Include Include endorsement disclaimer text • If the site allows comments, include a user agreement establishing criteria for posts • Clearly identify the site as "official" • Be unlocked and open to the public • Be labeled as "organization-government page" on Facebook